The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Kano Zone, has warned that it may resort to industrial action if the governments of Kano, Kaduna, and Jigawa states continue to delay the implementation of the 2025 Federal Government-ASUU Agreement in their state-owned universities.
Abdulrazaq Ibrahim, the Zonal Coordinator of ASUU Kano Zone, told a press conference at Bayero University in Kano on Wednesday that, while the federal government had begun implementing key aspects of the agreement in most federal universities, none of the zone’s state-owned universities had domesticated or implemented the pact.
The Kano Zone includes Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Bayero University in Kano, Kaduna State University, Kano University of Science and Technology in Wudil, Federal University Dutse, Northwest University in Kano, Sule Lamido University in Kafin Hausa, and the Federal University of Technology in Babura.
According to the union, the federal government has issued funds to settle outstanding five-month arrears for wage components under the agreement, such as the Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance, Professorial Secretariat Administrative Allowance, and Earned Academic Allowance.
However, ASUU voiced worry that the zone’s state governments were yet to honor the agreement, despite having participated in the negotiations that ended in its signing in December 2025.
The union added that the agreement has already been adopted and implemented at various state-owned universities across the country, including Sa’adu Zungur University, Ekiti State University, Osun State University, Benue State University, Sokoto State University, and Shehu Shagari University of Education.
“We therefore urge the governments of Kano, Kaduna, and Jigawa states to immediately domesticate the agreement, settle outstanding entitlements, and resolve pending issues affecting lecturers in their respective universities or risk industrial action,” the zonal coordinator said.
ASUU also repeated its demand for the payment of its members’ withheld three-and-a-half months’ salaries, claiming that lecturers conducted research during the strike and resumed academic duties soon after the strike was suspended.
The union also expressed concern over delays in remitting outstanding third-party deductions and pension contributions to the National Pension Commission, urging authorities to remove the backlog and ensure regular remittances to pension fund administrators.
ASUU cautioned that further delays, selective implementation, or blatant disrespect for the 2025 accord might damage industrial harmony and disrupt academic activity at institutions throughout the zone.
It urged parents, students, civil society organizations, the media, and the general public to pressure the affected state governments to honor the agreement, emphasizing that failure to do so could jeopardize students’ access to quality higher education and delay their academic and professional goals.
ASUU expressed worry over the country’s deteriorating security situation, economic difficulties, and the effects of climate change, citing terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, and farmer-herder disputes as continuing threats to lives, livelihoods, and national progress.
